Your mission

Reporting to the VP of Product & Engineering, your mission will be to actively contribute to make Bitpanda’s platform scalable, performant, observable, resilient and secure.

You will be a reference to the other members of the engineering team and proactively grow their technical skills within the company. Through guidance, mentorship and hands-on contributions, you’ll engage technical and non-technical stakeholders and elevate our engineering standards and technology in the entire product and engineering organisation.

What you’ll do

• Grow and inspire the Product and Engineering organisation, while providing technical guidance for highly complex initiatives. Conceive plans and conduct research in relevant problem areas or new technology of considerable scope and complexity.
• As an excellent communicator, you will gather requirements and pave the way for consensus on the creation and adoption of architectural decision records across multiple departments. You will lead smaller teams of senior engineers to deliver high impact initiatives crucial for Bitpanda’s business goals.
• Align with the company strategy and explore technologies which can have a positive impact for Bitpanda in the years to come
• Analyze potential business opportunities for their benefits and risks and deduct clear decisions
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured architectural diagrams and technical documents, as well as maintain Bitpanda’s reference architecture framework

Who you are

• Ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams, and navigate technical ambiguity with only high-level direction. You have experience in large scale adoption of reactive systems and are able to break down complex initiatives into smaller iterations that involve other engineering and product teams
• You have a BS in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Informatics or equivalent professional experience. You have advanced knowledge and experience with building reactive microsystems leveraging event or message driven architecture for systems with high and variable load and experienced with various service integration patterns
• You’re proficient with many of the following tools and technologies: AWS core infrastructure components as well as managed services (like EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElasticCache), Terraform, GitLab CI, Kafka, Kubernetes, 2 of Java/Kotlin/Go/Python/PHP, GraphQL, MySql, PostgreSQL, Redis, various SRE tools.
• You have demonstrated ability to design secure and contemporary systems running on public cloud leveraging a modern techstack that offers good developer experience for participating teams both from development and operations perspective
• You are highly collaborative as well as focused and able to build relationships across all departments even beyond the engineering department and at different organisational levels. Be self-driven, and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects in spite of incomplete or inaccurate data.